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Euronews · Mar 31, 2025

Governments losing patience with European Commission over delayed 2040 climate target proposal

With some clear exceptions, there appears to be broad support among European governments to open negotiations on a 2040 emissions reduction target as soon as possible – but enthusiasm for the 90% cut favoured by the European Commission was less in evidence at an EU Council summit on Thursday.

Euronews · Mar 28, 2025

Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany

President Mokgweetsi Masisi offers to send the animals as a ‘gift’ to Berlin amid a dispute over hunting trophies.

Al Jazeera · Apr 3, 2024

Over 100 tonnes of dead fish recovered from Oder River as mass die-off mystery deepens

Poland says it is checking industries in the area even as number of dead fish balloons

The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2022

Cause for massive fish kill in German-Polish river unclear

German officials are expressing mounting anger at the slow flow of information from Poland about a polluted border river as experts race to discover what killed tens of thousands of fish

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2022

German minister decries ecological catastrophe in Oder River

Germany’s environment minister says the mass die-off of fish in the Oder River is an ecological catastrophe and it's not clear yet how long it will take the river to recover

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2022

‘Heat apocalypse’ warning in western France as thousands flee wildfire

Nearly 25,000 escape blaze sparked by southern European heatwave that has already killed hundreds of people

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022

Climate change extreme weather costs Germany billions of euros a year - study

Extreme heat, drought and floods caused by climate change cost Germany at least 6.6 billion euros ($6.69 billion) in damages annually on average in the past two decades, a study showed on Monday, with some severe episodes pushing losses into the tens of billions.

Reuters · Jul 18, 2022

G7 countries say strict environmental rules needed for deep-sea mining

The Group of Seven countries on Friday agreed stringent environmental controls should govern deep-sea mining and that they would consent to such mining projects only if they did not seriously harm the marine environment.

Reuters · May 27, 2022

G7 calls on OPEC to play key role to ease global energy supplies

Ministers from the Group of Seven countries on Friday called on OPEC to act responsibly to ease a global energy crunch brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as they announced a breakthrough commitment to phase out coal-fuelled power.

Reuters · May 27, 2022